TAO DOG YOGA & Adventures

12/17/2024

A holiday gift for you and your dog! 🎁🐾

In honor of our TAO DOG Weekend Wellness Retreat 2025, we are giving already registered participants and those who register by 12/31/24, a special customized gift for you & your dog. You will receive your gift upon arrival at the retreat, a keepsake as a reminder of a memorable weekend with your dog and friends.

Early Bird Registration for our dog-friendly wellness retreat is open through 12/31/24, we have extended our special of $100 off through the rest of the year. You can register through link in bio.✨

12/14/2024

We are thrilled to be 50% full for our 2025 Weekend Retreat ✨

TAO DOG Weekend Retreat
5/30/25-6/1/25•Catskills, NY

A wellness retreat designed for you and your dog! Experience tiny home life & bring your dog on a one of a kind transformative weekend. Our retreat is designed with activities for your dog and also for you. All Inclusive Experience. Limited spots available. Early Bird Registration is open, enjoy $100 off when you register by 12/31/24.

12/06/2024

Join us for our annual New Year’s Day hike with your dog!✨

This community hike will benefit 🐾 Drobec’s Second Chance, K9 Heroes Health Fund is a non-profit organization that provides health funding for retired CT Department of Corrections K9s & CT community comfort/facility/therapy dogs. These dogs, and their handlers, give so much to their communities they serve throughout their working career. They deserve the best medical care in their golden years, so they can live out their lives happy and heathy.

Start the new year off with us and support our community’s working dogs in their retirement. Suggested donation of $25. 100% of donations go directly to this fund. Please register through link so we know you’ll be attending. Donations can be sent to our Venmo . Come hike with your dog, give what you can and let’s celebrate 2025 together!

Register thru link in bio🐾

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12/03/2024

When I first started training service dogs, I was given a group of 5 German Shepherds and tasked with training each to be a guide dog. Although they were the same breed and raised for the same job, each had a very distinct personality. This required me to meet each dog where they were at to find success in training them.

17 years later, I still find myself meeting dogs exactly where they are. I used to think it was becoming a different version of myself. I’d think what does this dog need? Does she need me to be quieter when I give commands? Does he need me to encourage him to find the curb on the sidewalk?

I now realize it was never about changing myself to meet them, but learning to access parts of myself that already exist. Each dog we have or train is a chance to learn more about ourselves. There is no doubt our dogs change our lives and us.

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11/29/2024

We’ve extended our special through Monday 12/2! We heard from many of you that you were traveling for Thanksgiving. We want you to have the opportunity to enjoy our special and get your spot for our 2025 Weekend Retreat! ✨

11/27/2024

Over the years with our dogs our relationship deepens, through experiences, training and everyday life together. Then one day we wake up and realize the space that exists between us and our dogs is not clearly distinguishable. Where do they end and we begin? That’s a beauty of loving and choosing to live your life with a dog (or many😉).

As we shift into this holiday season, Thanksgiving always reminds me to pause and reflect with gratitude. A reminder to slow down, take time for yourself, enjoy the moments with your dogs, pets, family and friends. Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving full of everything you love.🙏🏼💜

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11/22/2024

I practice yoga with all of my dogs. Even this guy right here. Mav is an intense dog. His favorite command is “GO”. He would prefer we do everything at high intensity, fast and all the time. Teaching him to be calm with me is an important skill and piece to our relationship working together. Mav and I train and trial in the sport American Schutzhund, where part of the judging is on your dog’s attitude, power and your coordination as a team. Adding the element of calm doesn’t necessarily mean we are slowing down or dimming our energy. It’s a sense of steady calm, presence, feeling assured and trusting in each other. We discover this together on our yoga mat and it changes our relationship off our mat and in everything we do. Stepping out on a field to trial or do anything new with our dogs may bring a sense of nervous energy, excitement, increased heart rate, quicker movements…through yoga we learn to meet ourselves in this space. Connecting to our breath and feeling grounded and ultimately calm and ready.

Mav reminds me to go big, shine bright and just go for it!✨

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11/19/2024

We are thrilled to partner with Paul's Custom Pet Food for their Pupsgiving Event!

As if you needed another reason to take your dog to dinner this weekend, every Pupsgiving attendee will receive $50 off a ticket to the upcoming TAO DOG YOGA & Adventures retreat!!! Only 5 spots left for Pupsgiving Dinner!!! Get yours here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pupsgiving-dinner-at-pauls-custom-pet-food-to-benefit-hurricane-pet-relief-tickets-1069251884169?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYp88m92DMKhj2SiLVpKRoqHIIj3clBgKke1K9y1KnWrz7za51obWTkpLA_aem_qeOuGi-3bcQVEL32z4IBdA

11/14/2024

That’s me on the right, with the first dog I ever loved, Sammy. (the other adorable kid is my sister 💕) I think I was born loving dogs. I don’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t have a dog beside me. When I left for college at 18, I left without a dog. Years 18-19 were some of my hardest times. So, at 20 years old, I got a dog of my very own, Fenway. Life made sense again…not to say she was an easy dog, I got her when she was about a year old and I think she came with every behavior problem possible. She taught me so much about dog training but, she taught me even more about myself.

Each dog that comes into our lives teaches us more and if we’re lucky we’ll have a soul dog that teaches us we are capable of anything. I cherish Tao every day, feeling lucky to have her by my side for over 12 years. To imagine a life without her feels impossible but, I know our relationship is forever. Never doubt your dogs are always with you, even if they aren’t here physically. You can feel them on a walk when the sunshine hits you just right, when you are at their favorite beach or in those quiet moments of solitude. I am grateful for each of my dogs along this journey, it’s been 40 years of loving dogs and how lucky are we as humans to share our lives with these amazing beings. 💜

11/14/2024

Mark your calendars for our instagram live session! We’ll be talking all things TAO DOG Weekend Retreat.🙏🏼🩵

🐾 We’ll be sharing the features of our tiny-house accommodations.

🐾Sharing a bit about the retreat venue and all it has to offer during your weekend stay.

🐾 What to expect during your transformative weekend with your dog!

Follow to attend this session.
Going LIVE Thursday, 11/24 @ 6pm EST.

11/13/2024

Exciting news!! We are thrilled to announce our TAO DOG Weekend Retreat for early summer 2025!

With much thought and exploration we have chosen to hold our retreat at A Tiny House Resort in the Catskill Mountains! Just 2 hours from CT and NYC, this venue has everything we could have dreamed of for a retreat for you and your dog. This beautiful 45 acre property on a mile of creek frontage has an onsite waterfall, a dog park, a seasonal heated pool for humans, and tiny houses with fenced in decks. A Tiny House Resort is by far the most dog-friendly resort and are excited to welcome our community.

This is an All Inclusive Wellness Weekend Retreat Experience including 3 days-2 nights; tiny-house accommodations, meals and all activities.

Dates: Friday 5/30/25-Sunday 6/1/25

Tiny-House accommodations include waterfront, partial waterview or resort view. You can choose a single, single-shared, double shared or three person shared house. Tiny-houses are on a first come first serve basis.

Registration is now open! Take advantage of Early-bird registration and receive $50 off your retreat experience(offered through 12/31/24).

For more information visit: https://www.taodogyoga.com/tao-dog-weekend-retreat
Follow along for retreat updates on all the fun to come!